Lipogenesis inhibitors: therapeutic opportunities and challenges

B Batchuluun, SL Pinkosky, GR Steinberg - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Fatty acids are essential for survival, acting as bioenergetic substrates, structural
components and signalling molecules. Given their vital role, cells have evolved mechanisms …

Regulation and metabolic functions of mTORC1 and mTORC2

A Szwed, E Kim, E Jacinto - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Cells metabolize nutrients for biosynthetic and bioenergetic needs to fuel growth and
proliferation. The uptake of nutrients from the environment and their intracellular metabolism …

Basic and therapeutic aspects of angiogenesis updated

G Eelen, L Treps, X Li, P Carmeliet - Circulation research, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
All organisms growing beyond the oxygen diffusion limit critically depend on a functional
vasculature for survival. Yet blood vessels are far more than passive, uniform conduits for …

Stromal cells in the tumor microenvironment: accomplices of tumor progression?

Y Zhao, M Shen, L Wu, H Yang, Y Yao, Q Yang… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is made up of cells and extracellular matrix (non-cellular
component), and cellular components include cancer cells and non-malignant cells such as …

[HTML][HTML] Lipids and cancer: Emerging roles in pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapeutic intervention

LM Butler, Y Perone, J Dehairs, LE Lupien… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
With the advent of effective tools to study lipids, including mass spectrometry-based
lipidomics, lipids are emerging as central players in cancer biology. Lipids function as …

Targeting the tumour vasculature: from vessel destruction to promotion

S Guelfi, K Hodivala-Dilke, G Bergers - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
As angiogenesis was recognized as a core hallmark of cancer growth and survival, several
strategies have been implemented to target the tumour vasculature. Yet to date, attempts …

Acetyl-CoA carboxylases and diseases

Y Wang, W Yu, S Li, D Guo, J He, Y Wang - Frontiers in oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Acetyl-CoA carboxylases (ACCs) are enzymes that catalyze the carboxylation of acetyl-CoA
to produce malonyl-CoA. In mammals, ACC1 and ACC2 are two members of ACCs. ACC1 …

[HTML][HTML] PHGDH-mediated endothelial metabolism drives glioblastoma resistance to chimeric antigen receptor T cell immunotherapy

D Zhang, AM Li, G Hu, M Huang, F Yang, L Zhang… - Cell metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
The efficacy of immunotherapy is limited by the paucity of T cells delivered and infiltrated into
the tumors through aberrant tumor vasculature. Here, we report that phosphoglycerate …

Targeting fatty acid synthase modulates sensitivity of hepatocellular carcinoma to sorafenib via ferroptosis

Y Li, W Yang, Y Zheng, W Dai, J Ji, L Wu… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Springer
Background Sorafenib resistance is a key impediment to successful treatment of patients
with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and recent studies have reported reversal of …

Hallmarks of endothelial cell metabolism in health and disease

X Li, X Sun, P Carmeliet - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
In 2009, it was postulated that endothelial cells (ECs) would only be able to execute the
orders of growth factors if these cells would accordingly adapt their metabolism. Ten years …